Swinerton Management & Consulting Launches Green Services Division
Laura Rodormer, LEED AP, joined Swinerton Management & Consulting in October of 2007 to launch the company's new Green Consulting Services Division. Laura has over 17 years of experience encompassing Sustainable Development, Business Development, Client Relations and Program Management.

Prior to joining Swinerton, Laura was the Commercial Green Building Coordinator with the San Francisco Department of Environment where she established the LEED Gold Priority Permitting program to advance high-level green building in San Francisco. She also spent 10 years with Booz Allen Hamilton providing project management for the Environmental Protection Agency's Architecture, Engineering and Asset Management Branch. Additionally, Laura worked with Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. and Global Green USA to develop sustainability programs.

At Swinerton Management & Consulting, Laura is focused on developing the company's Green Consulting Services. Service offerings include strategic visioning, LEED charrettes, training, facilitating project team efforts to deliver green building objectives, coordination with Municipal programs and marketing. Specialty market sector is Existing Buildings.

Laura serves as the Co-Chairman of the Business Council on Climate Change and the San Francisco Junior League Advocacy Committee. She has served as a Board Member of Build it Green and the Arthritis Foundation; Technical Advisory Board of West Coast Green; and Commission Member on the Arlington County Energy and Environmental Conservation Commission

To hear a recent radio interview with Laura on the show "Rock, Roll and Real Estate" click on the link below:

http://www.rockrollandrealestate.com/

ENR Top Green Contractors List Ranks Swinerton 4th in Top 50 Green Contractors
The sustainable construction market exploded in 2006, with "green building" morphing from a feel-good novelty to a ubiquitous presence on the industry landscape. ENR's first Top Green Contractors list is an attempt to measure this market by ranking contractors based on their revenue in 2006 from projects that were either registered or certified with a major third-party environmental standings or ratings group.

The ENR Top 50 Green Contractors generated $8.96 billion in revenue from such projects, 15.3% of their total contracting revenue.

To view all Swineton's Green ENR Rankings, click here: Top Green...

Swinerton Headquarters is a Top Ten Finalist in the Center for the Built Environment's Livable Buildings Award
CBE's Livable Buildings Award Program applauded Swinerton's achievement for becoming one of ten finalists from among the hundreds of buildings that have used the CBE Occupant Survey. The Swinerton HQ at 260 Townsend Street was in good company.

Please click on the link below to read about the CBE Livable Awards Program:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/10/23_livableawards.shtml

Developing Green: The 2007 Swinerton Southern California Green Building Forums
Bringing hard data to the table on valuating Green Buildings captured everyone's attention. Scott Muldavin, Executive Director of the Green Building Finance Consortium, gave rapt audiences at the 2007 Swinerton Southern California Green Building Forums exactly what they wanted: intelligence from the finanical community, based on real case studies.

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Swinerton Builders Earns Eighth Consecutive Waste Reduction Award
For the eighth consecutive year, the California Integrated Waste Managment Board recognized Swinerton Builders as one of the top waste-reducing companies in California by awarding the company its prestigious WRAP (Waste Reducation Awards Program) Award.

Through its construction debris recycling programs, Green construction techniques, and outreach efforts in educating its employees, subcontractors and clients in teh benefits of waste reduction, Swinerton Builders consistently demonstrates that it is a leader in waste reduction.

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Swinerton Joins NAIOP's Green Development
The National Association of Industrial & Office Properties (NAIOP) launched an initiative in 2005 to recognize outstanding Green Developments in America, and to educate its membership on Sustainable Design and Green Building.

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Swinerton Builds on Sustainability
Swinerton never meant to go green - it just kind of happened.

Weyerhauser wanted a green-roofed office building in the early '70s, so Swinerton constructed it. Pac Bell had plans for energy efficient headquarters in the early '80s, so Swinerton built it. J.H. Snyder's Santa Monica Water Garden project included designs for a rain-water reclamation system in the early '90s, so Swinerton did it. "We weren't proactive in the movement at all, we were just doing what our clients wanted," said Swinerton CEO Gordon Marks.

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Luxury Hotel Goes 'Green'
From recycled toilet paper to organic shampoo, one San Francisco hotel stays environmentally aware.
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Green Building
This presentation by the City of San Francisco out in the public is very prominent about Swinerton's Green efforts, including 260 Townsend Street, The Orchard Garden Hotel and ongoing Leadership in the USGBC and our monthly hosting of the Bay Area LEED Users Group Meetings. More...

On March 22nd, 23rd & 24th, more than 120 internationally noted Green Building experts, U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Board Members, city representatives from Denver, Santa Monica and San Francisco, developers, owners, architects and builders gathered together for three days of presentations, panels, case studies and dialogue on Green Building and Sustainable Design at the 2006 Swinerton Green Building Summit at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California. More...,